Re: [PATCH 5/8] serial: 8250: reject delaying RTS with RS485

From: Claudio Scordino
Date: Thu Nov 17 2011 - 04:43:16 EST


Hi Wolfram,

Il 16/11/2011 17:24, Wolfram Sang ha scritto:
> There might be chips capable of doing this, but for now nothing is implemented,
> so reject usage of this feature.

The delay must not necessarily be done by hardware. The drivers/tty/serial/crisv10.c
driver, for example, delays through a msleep.

I don't know if having a software delay in this driver can make sense in some particular
circumstance.

Best regards,

Claudio
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